thisisfutile (8/15/2016)

Ah, that does change the perspective and I can almost agree with you now. Might I suggest editing...

My response was more on the subject of 'space tourism'.

Hi Manie/Gaz, no need for the smiley, I got you 🙂 ... and I totally agree it's an incredible field of endeavour and catches the imagination. One thing reported by...

This may not be popular (and "party pooperesque"), but from a space tourism perspective I'm not sure the Earth needs the ill effects of burning tonnes of rocket fuel for...

This is ringing a bell with me as I am just starting to feel comfortable with SQLServer and as though my knowledge is now beyond 'beginners' after several years using...

Ha, ha, too true unfortunately 🙂

Thanks for the reply.

We have a data warehouse and reporting system running on SQL Server 2008R2 and we have not touched CLR yet. All our needs have been met via the 'traditional' T-SQL...

Interesting that the division at your place was between warehouse and OLTP DBAs for some time. I'm definitely in the first camp here. So the specialist areas almost pick themselves...

Thanks for the reply Jason. I'm kind of following that advice already so it's good to here I'm on the right track. I'm making sure I try to keep an...

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. It's useful advice. I got the impresssion that I would benefit from the extra confidence in my abilities that you mention, if I specialized. I...

Point noted 🙂

Thanks again.

Hi,

Good to hear it's not just me who has to get by on a shoestring. I like to think it makes us more creative 😀

I've got DDCC CHECKDB running...

Hi Koen,

Thanks very much for the reply. Your clear explanation has helped me understand this.

Your point that data modeling is one cause of inconsistency within the data as well as...

Hi Luis,

Thanks a lot of for the reply. I'm now storing the results in a table as you suggest. I'm not familiar with dynamic SQL or how to use it...